HE WAS AFRAID TO GO HOME. ~ Robert Parker, Suing for Divorce, Often "Sat Alone at Y. M. C. A."

August 1, 1908

HE WAS AFRAID TO GO HOME.

Robert Parker, Suing for Divorce,

Often "Sat Alone at Y. M. C. A."

In the divorce suit against his wife, Sidney, filed by Robert Parker in the circuit court at Independence yesterday, Mr. Parker states that when he returned home late at night, after attending to business affairs, his wife was always waiting for him, but not with love and kisses. He avers that the bric-a-brac and small articles of furniture often greeted him.

The evening volley from the front door got to be such a regular thing that Mr. Parker says he was really afraid to go home in the dark. Like the man in the song, his only refuge was the Y. M. C. A., and he often stayed there all night, he says, instead of risking his head by going home.